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sorcyressSo!
It's a commonly known secret that the Sorcyress doesn't actually know how to cook. She makes a pretty bitchin' sous-chef (You! Chop these vegetables! Wash these dishes! Climb this building!!1), but when it comes to the actual cooking part, she is...inexperienced, lets say.
The only way to get experience is to practise, really. Which is why, when my stomach told me it was hungry around lunch time today, I listened to my impulsive side, and decided to actually cook something. (Wait, no spaghettios? Tragedy!) So!
Culinary Experiment #001: Eggs Etc.
The one thing I really do know how to make already is scrambled eggs. In the past nine months or so, I've been introduced to the idea that eggs don't have to just have *eggs* in them. You can add all manner of interesting things, which is how I came up with the idea of making "scrambled eggs-plus-whatever-else-I-feel-like-throwing-in", also known as "Eggs Etc."
The first step was to find ingredients. Now, I love my mother very much, and she's a wonderful person, but cooking is not exactly her strong suit. So it's always a bit of a toss up as to whether the necessary ingredients for *anything* will be in the house. Luckily for all involved, we had eggs, which meant I could actually proceed.
Shortly, I had a cutting board covered in delicious things.
Three eggs seemed to be a good number. A handful of mixed stir fry veggies (gods bless Market Day2) added the 'green' I wanted, a stick of cheese was pretty much a necessity for eggs, and, as I have no qualms about eating cute adorable animals, I chopped up some ham (Yay deli meats. Sigh). As a final seasoning, I decided to use some teriyaki sauce.
Unrelated to anything, I can crack eggs with one hand. This is a stupid talent that I really really enjoy having. And thus, you get video:
Once I had all the ingredients, and had checked the interwobs to make sure I wasn't going to somehow accidentally damage mom's Calphalon pan by cooking with it, I was ready to begin! All the proper ingredients were tossed into the pan, along with a couple dollops of teriyaki sauce for good measure.
I, uh...cooked them like I always cook eggs --heat a little above medium, stir. Once the eggs become solid and no longer look like they're going to kill me, declare them done. Seriously guys, I think I learned how to make scrambled eggs when I was about ten, because they are the easiest damn thing to cook ever.
SO! I tasted them, wondering if I had inadvertently wasted three eggs. But no, my culinary experiment was a success!! It could've used more teriyaki sauce, the ham should've been in bigger chunks, I should have added the cheese later so it was still semi-solid, and it was about one egg too many for me to comfortably eat. But even with those setbacks, I had made a delicious sort of lunch.
CULINARY EXPERIMENT #001: Success!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: If you don't get why a sous-chef needs to climb a building, you probably haven't been playing enough 'Devil Bunny Needs a Ham'
2: Market Day is this fundraiser the elementary school does. Basically, it's a company that makes all manner of delicious foods for you to heat and eat, or, occasionally, actually do something with. We're huge fans of the assorted veggies they sell, and you can usually find two or three big bags in one of our freezers.
It's a commonly known secret that the Sorcyress doesn't actually know how to cook. She makes a pretty bitchin' sous-chef (You! Chop these vegetables! Wash these dishes! Climb this building!!1), but when it comes to the actual cooking part, she is...inexperienced, lets say.
The only way to get experience is to practise, really. Which is why, when my stomach told me it was hungry around lunch time today, I listened to my impulsive side, and decided to actually cook something. (Wait, no spaghettios? Tragedy!) So!
Culinary Experiment #001: Eggs Etc.
The one thing I really do know how to make already is scrambled eggs. In the past nine months or so, I've been introduced to the idea that eggs don't have to just have *eggs* in them. You can add all manner of interesting things, which is how I came up with the idea of making "scrambled eggs-plus-whatever-else-I-feel-like-throwing-in", also known as "Eggs Etc."
The first step was to find ingredients. Now, I love my mother very much, and she's a wonderful person, but cooking is not exactly her strong suit. So it's always a bit of a toss up as to whether the necessary ingredients for *anything* will be in the house. Luckily for all involved, we had eggs, which meant I could actually proceed.
Shortly, I had a cutting board covered in delicious things.
Three eggs seemed to be a good number. A handful of mixed stir fry veggies (gods bless Market Day2) added the 'green' I wanted, a stick of cheese was pretty much a necessity for eggs, and, as I have no qualms about eating cute adorable animals, I chopped up some ham (Yay deli meats. Sigh). As a final seasoning, I decided to use some teriyaki sauce.
Unrelated to anything, I can crack eggs with one hand. This is a stupid talent that I really really enjoy having. And thus, you get video:
Once I had all the ingredients, and had checked the interwobs to make sure I wasn't going to somehow accidentally damage mom's Calphalon pan by cooking with it, I was ready to begin! All the proper ingredients were tossed into the pan, along with a couple dollops of teriyaki sauce for good measure.
I, uh...cooked them like I always cook eggs --heat a little above medium, stir. Once the eggs become solid and no longer look like they're going to kill me, declare them done. Seriously guys, I think I learned how to make scrambled eggs when I was about ten, because they are the easiest damn thing to cook ever.
SO! I tasted them, wondering if I had inadvertently wasted three eggs. But no, my culinary experiment was a success!! It could've used more teriyaki sauce, the ham should've been in bigger chunks, I should have added the cheese later so it was still semi-solid, and it was about one egg too many for me to comfortably eat. But even with those setbacks, I had made a delicious sort of lunch.
CULINARY EXPERIMENT #001: Success!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: If you don't get why a sous-chef needs to climb a building, you probably haven't been playing enough 'Devil Bunny Needs a Ham'
2: Market Day is this fundraiser the elementary school does. Basically, it's a company that makes all manner of delicious foods for you to heat and eat, or, occasionally, actually do something with. We're huge fans of the assorted veggies they sell, and you can usually find two or three big bags in one of our freezers.
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on 2008-05-12 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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on 2008-05-12 08:54 pm (UTC)Yay for added syllables. :D
~Sor
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on 2008-05-12 08:52 pm (UTC)It's all about the hot sauce.
*pokes Flickr*
Shit! I thought for sure I had a photo of Green Tabasco. It is awesome.
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on 2008-05-13 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-05-13 04:34 am (UTC)Oops, wrong channel...anywho, back to the Fool Network...
If you want/need cooking experience, you need go no further than Chez Flex--home to all finds of culinariness. I can whip up a meal in nothing flat from whatever is on hand; though I do enjoy long, quiet strolls through the Giant or Safeway megamarts. Excuse me while I squeeze the Charmin'! Oo la la!
So, yeah, let me know and i can teach you Cooking Skills 101. It is what I do even better than anything else. Otherwise, I would be required to seek out and pursue a real life. Eeewww!
Now that you are home we must plan to dine. Your choice. Lemme know.
Just call me Flex!
C ya.
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on 2008-05-14 11:52 pm (UTC)And that is about the total extent of my cooking prowess in the kitchen. ;P
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on 2008-05-15 12:16 am (UTC)This is why neither of us is a baker in the pie shop or sommat. Although I hear being a ferret is Pretty Damn Cool anyways...
~Sor
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on 2008-05-15 01:09 am (UTC)i got Rtizy to make a Ferret thingy just for me 'cause i wanted to be able to mess with people and she din't want to make the Customer thingy be able to do all those things and so she made a Ferret thingy & stuck me in there & i can demote people till they are in the Well and then i can kick 'em & stuff 'cause there was this person in the pieshop the other morning when it was just me & Oolie & i wanted so bad to be able to kick 'em but i couldn't and so Rtizy did that thing for me 'cause she's so full of Awesome and doesn't mind being stalked by me & stuffs! *gasps for air & falls over*
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on 2008-05-16 03:48 am (UTC)Apparently, when the cook asks you to crack 3 dozen eggs into a bucket, that's what you're expected to do.